Sean MacGuire

Sean MacGuire (died 1899) was an Irish-American outlaw who was affiliated with the Van der Linde Gang during the last years of the Wild West.

Biography
Sean MacGuire was the son of Darragh MacGuire, and he came from a long line of Irish criminals and political dissidents. His father, a wanted man, fled with young Sean to America, but the British pursued him and killed him in his bed. Sean first came across Dutch van der Linde and Hosea Matthews in Texas when he tried to rob Dutch's pocket watch in an alleyway; Sean failed, and Dutch instead recruited the young man into his gang. He became a cocky thief and stickup man, and he had a relationship with fellow outlaw Karen Jones. In 1899, he was captured by Ike Skelding's bounty hunters after the Blackwater massacre, but he was rescued by Arthur Morgan, Charles Smith, Javier Escuella, and Josiah Trelawny and brought back to the gang in Nebraska. He took part in several robberies before joining the gang on their move to Rhodes, Louisiana. He joined Arthur, Bill Williamson, and Micah Bell in becoming hired guns for the Gray family, but he was killed when the Gray family betrayed the four outlaws and ambushed them on the streets of Rhodes. Sean was shot in the head by a sniper and killed, and the other outlaws shot their way out of the ambush. Arthur blamed Sean's death on the carelessness of Micah and Bill, and Karen became an embittered alcoholic and left the gang due to Sean's death.